It’s Jeanie who is most often seen in attire associated with Muslim societies. And djinni are _real_, at least according to the Koran, so it is blasphemous for a Muslim to question their existence.

I have to wonder why the “HLS police” didn’t seize Roger as an associate of a suspected terrorist; he’d been spending every evening with her for weeks.

The US has a rightful concern with _preventing_ terrorist acts. There have been quite a few convictions in the past few years of individuals and groups attempting to carry out destructive acts in the US. Meanwhile, overseas, scores to hundreds of people die _every week_ in bombings, burnings, and shootings. Many over doctrinal differences dating back thirteen centuries. The _whole world_ should be obsessed with terrorism. Until it stops.

It isn’t gunna stop Tramline. What terrorism is today is what guerrilla warfare was from the industrial revolution until Vietnam. And it’s what banditry and piracy were before the industrial revolution. Whether it’s for money, religion, politics or perverted fun, it’s pretty much the same type of people. Only now, technology allows for the easier creation of homemade bombs and destructive weapons. While Islam has the only truly organized terrorist sects that we know of, any individual or group can easily engage in it, because it doesn’t take all that much to make something that can hurt a lot of people.

I am pretty well aware of that, sir, along with the brutality of the Spanish conquests, the British-Indian Mutiny of 1857, the Crusades in the middle ages and many other events. Like I said, cruelty has always existed, and I never once claimed that Christians have any historical moral superiority. But make sure when trying to make examples that you keep in mind the difference between war and terrorism.

Yeah, the first three groups of astronauts in the real world were all active or former military pilots (either test pilots or combat pilots). Tony Nelson and Roger Heeley were active during the Mercury program (Tony’s flight in the pilot episode being a Mercury flight), which means that they would have been in either the first or second groups selected.

“Employeement”? …I guess no one ever took you up on that proof reader job? :/

Also, nice joke. 😛 I was just getting ready to say “good job” for boycotting the government shutdown, and I was just about to come to my senses and say “wait, no, that’s stupid”, when I saw the “JUST KIDDING!” Nice. 😛

The last four panels were just wonderful. Her eye-crossing is hilarious, and her smiles in the last three panels are great. The last one is so wonderfully derpy.

It’s only a partial shutdown and they even call it that. We all know there’ll be a deal in a few days and all will return to normal. These people aren’t losing their jobs, and they won’t go broke from a few days off of work. Unlike all the private sector workers who have *lost* their jobs the last 7 – 8 years and have gone broke.

This whole thing is being blown out of proportion. When it ends, it will be quickly forgotten.